Comments on: Breaking up is easy to do http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/02/08/breaking-up-is-easy-to-do/ by Jeff Jarvis Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: steven http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/02/08/breaking-up-is-easy-to-do/#comment-29146 steven Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:43:39 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/02/08/breaking-up-is-easy-to-do/#comment-29146 it defeats a purpose of calling it a media congolormate. I think they should just spin off AOL and keep everything else. Icahn's primetime is over. He's making a fool of himself by telling everyone to vote for him to run the company. Spining off seperate companys is a stupid idea. He only owns 3 percent of the company, so why does he make that he owns like 30 percent or something? He seems like a control freak. AOL should be only spun off, and like I said, Icahn's primtime is OVER! it defeats a purpose of calling it a media congolormate. I think they should just spin off AOL and keep everything else. Icahn’s primetime is over. He’s making a fool of himself by telling everyone to vote for him to run the company. Spining off seperate companys is a stupid idea. He only owns 3 percent of the company, so why does he make that he owns like 30 percent or something? He seems like a control freak. AOL should be only spun off, and like I said, Icahn’s primtime is OVER!

]]> By: Paw http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/02/08/breaking-up-is-easy-to-do/#comment-28939 Paw Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:38:36 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/02/08/breaking-up-is-easy-to-do/#comment-28939 While I, as well as fellow investors, would welcome any effort to raise the TW stock price from its undeserved basement status, I question the use of the term "reason to exist". Does Michael Wolff have a reason to exist? He certainly doesn't bring any fresh insight into why a company that seems to be firing on all cylinders (profits up 8% year to year, free cash flow of 4.4 billion, industry leading film studio, television studio, cable company, top billing cable networks, etc.) gets shit on by the likes of him and fuckheads like Jessica Reif Cohen at Merrill Lynch. If Wolff took his nose out of Icahn's ass for a second and look at the numbers, he might learn something. There's no real need to reiterate how horrible the AOL merger was for Time Warner. Anyone that lost money during that period could tell you that. What no one has clearly defined in this entire debate is how and why Icahn expects to get more from the pieces of TW than the company is worth today. Explaining that might justify Wolff's own existence. While I, as well as fellow investors, would welcome any effort to raise the TW stock price from its undeserved basement status, I question the use of the term “reason to exist”. Does Michael Wolff have a reason to exist? He certainly doesn’t bring any fresh insight into why a company that seems to be firing on all cylinders (profits up 8% year to year, free cash flow of 4.4 billion, industry leading film studio, television studio, cable company, top billing cable networks, etc.) gets shit on by the likes of him and fuckheads like Jessica Reif Cohen at Merrill Lynch.

If Wolff took his nose out of Icahn’s ass for a second and look at the numbers, he might learn something. There’s no real need to reiterate how horrible the AOL merger was for Time Warner. Anyone that lost money during that period could tell you that. What no one has clearly defined in this entire debate is how and why Icahn expects to get more from the pieces of TW than the company is worth today. Explaining that might justify Wolff’s own existence.

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